Why aren't big businesses using "dowsing" or "psychics"?

Short answer:

Doesn't work. Just like prayer to Jesus.

British Telecom Engineers have always carried Dowsing rods as part of their kit to find buried cables. If it works - why not? Now they use a device called CAT, but can still use them.

I successfully found an earing in a 4 acre field that had been mown - and was hidden under grass so not visible. Took less than 5 minutes.

I also found a water main stop tap that was not shown on house plans, also not known to anyone. - Found the spot by divination, put spade in and hit the cover first strike. Was under 4" of earth and grass with nothing visible above ground.

Boy, you really started a firestorm of the gullible. I love all the "proof" some of the answers give. Links to blogs and websites trying to get people to pay them money for their services is not proof. It does prove gullible people will be parted with their money when con men and women come around. As far as prayer working it has been demonstrated that people that don't know they are being prayed for have no better outcomes than people that aren't being prayed for. There is some statical relevance if people know they are being prayed for just as placebos have some affect in clinical studies.

They know dowsing and psychics are fakes. Only some quite gullible private citizens believe such obvious frauds as you list. The frauds make feeble excuses for why they cannot make accurate predictions, and gullible people believe that ludicrous "osu no kuso".

So what is the question? Seems that you answered your own question? or maybe that was a declaration of "my belief" hidden in the form of a question - for someone with "rationale" as a guiding force you wasted ten minutes to declare yourself to... a more bored than you person out there in cyber world.

And now to your pretend question - I have no delusions that I will change any of your thinking - I am not trying to - I am declaring my beliefs back at you:-)

You're right, rationale is the center of human action - or so we would like to believe. The reality is that humans would like that there will be a god more than anyone else.

The religion thing is an invention of thousands of years of humans who did not have internet, or the notion of germs, and weather patterns, or even running water. Under those circumstances the invention of god and other superstition is actually the "rationale" thing to do. If you have no power over your fate "something" must have the power.

My advise to you is - religion and other superstitions have an added-value in may other ways. They provide a frame on how to run a morale society, traditions to celebrate as families and occasions to mark the passage of time and life events (marriage, birth, death, etc.) it worked for humans for millennial it will take thousands more to get ourselves rid of it - so take your time, celebrate with your family Christmas, Hanukkah, Festifus or the Super-ball. Religions have many faces some of them are standing in line at the Apple store next time a new iphone will come out.

best of all remember that even Dr. Spock is not the anti-religion - but just a prophet of a new one.

Now click on the button that says "best answer" so I get the extra points, I am looking to start my own cult of followers.

Happy Monday.

How do you know they do not-?-in many cases. Even the Military and CIA did it in Secret--and still likely is.

This stuff "upsets" some people emotionally. ( This is the root of most "Pseudo Skepticism"--hostility or rejection on emotional grounds) so it is often kept VERY discrete or secret.

No evidence? Just how many BOOKS have you read on this subject---ZERO I bet. There is lots of evidence out there if you bother to look for it. And not just Anecdotal. Cornell University and Duke University (Rhine institute) have a lot of information. AND Confirmation--yet they are VERY VERY Conservative in their results and conclusions.

Of course it is not 100 percent accurate, perhaps 75 to 80% at best and usually worse, but it does work more often than not. It is just that one cannot "put complete trust" in such systems as we do not know enough about how they work---YET

Remember that a lot of this stuff was "Officially rejected" by "Science" in the 1890's BEFORE Einstien, Plank and others Developed modern physics with it's Quantum Mechanics, Parallel universes, etc.---BEFORE the tools need to begin to understand it had been conceived.----Modern physics leaves the door wide open to this stuff, but many Scientists still are stuck on 1890's traditions.

They already do! I've seen water companies in my area using Dowsers on and off over the years in the UK. http://www.waterdowsing.co.uk/oil.htm shows that Peter Taylor is currently working for three separate oil companies.

Jack Coel Water Dowsing Services - Dowsed Wells & Results http://www.jackcoelwaterdowsing.com/dowsedwells.ht...

The problem with most psychics ESP abilities is that it only comes to them when it comes, usually unexpectedly, and same with astral projection, some people can meditate and go into an projection, but no one can control where there spirit goes as it takes excursions on it's own.

And prayers do work, especially faster when the person whom is in prayer is sincere and heartfelt prayers, those are the ones that are answered the fastest.

I have heard anecdotal evidence of water boring companies that charge the client an extra hundred dollars or so to get a water dowser in before they start drilling.

It sounds amazing but most of these dowsers find a source of water close to an electricity supply and where it is easy to get the drilling truck in without getting bogged.

If that ain't evidence of the magic uses of dowsing I don't know what is.

you are misinformed; the military has used dowsers to locate hidden mines during the Vietnam war and maybe still uses them as does some of the big oil companies. however, like other trade secrets they don't advertise that fact. The Stargate program tried to use other psychics in espionage; Or maybe that should be ESPionage. ;-)

Actually your "facts" are not actually facts, they are your personal uneducated bias.

There actually is a lot of proof of many of the things you've mentioned.

Here is a website that shows that 3 large oil companies have used the services of a dowser named Peter Taylor:

http://www.waterdowsing.co.uk/oil.htm

here's another that shows dowsing in on the rise in Europe:

http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/dowsing-in-...

Here's more regarding dowsing and oil companies specifically

http://www.prospectingoilandgas.com/

Regarding hospitals and prayer, that logic is also flawed. You would be hard pressed to find a hospital in north america that does NOT have a chapel and who does not work with local clergy to provide services in the hospitals. Those chapels cost money to build and money to maintain. Many even employ their own chapelan. So obviously hospitals do believe in its value or they wouldn't do it.

Also, I don't think you understand how healing works. Helping people and healing people either through traditional medicinal methods or by praying is done so out of the intent to be helpful not to get a cash grab.

There is no magical money to be found in healing someone. If someone gets better - which happens all the time, there is no additional cash influx. Depending on where you live, services may be paid for by the province/state, or by insurance coverage or by the invalid themselves, but there is no "bonus" for actually helping someone.

Your connection between a financial planner making money and therefore a tarot reader or other type of psychic making bigs bucks is also flawed. Many financial planners consult psychics to make their decisions but no business is going to pay them extra for referring more clients since that's part of their job description in the first place. Also, the psychic gets paid their regular hourly wage, they do not recieve a percentage of the money the financial institution brings in because of an increase in clients. The only way that would happen would be if the bank hired the psychic and offered them commission. But let's be realistic, that's never going to happen. No one out to increase their income is going to sign another on for a percentage if they could get away with a flat rate.

I provide professional psychic readings predominantly in the Toronto area and I have people come from all over the world to see me. I have leaders of big industry come to consult on their businesses. Financial planners who want my perspective on upcoming investments, heads of universities, hospitals and political leaders who all want my insight. I even have people come from all over the world to talk to me. So I know beyond a doubt that your assumptions are all false.

Feel free to not take my word for it, investigate and research it for yourself.